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    Tribe: Observations on Friendship, Loyalty, and Relationships

    friendship

    I recently had a conversation with my daughter about the meaning of friendship and how less is always more when it comes to her tribe.  She’s 11 and starts middle school in the fall. This means that inevitably she has begun to feel the sting of “friends” whose attitudes have changed and who are not always the nice little boys and girls they used to be.

    I get it.

    I still remember what it felt like to be in her shoes. It comes with the age and onset of puberty…and well, we’ve all watched “Heathers”, right?

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